How to Install Collabtive 2.1 on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS

In this tutorial, we will show how to install Collabtive on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on it. Collabtive is an open source web-based project management software. The main features of Collabtive are: task lists, milestones, time tracking, messaging / instant messaging, file management, role-based user permissions, reporting, exporting, calendaring and multilingual interface. This tutorial was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04 VPS

, but it should work on any Linux distribution.

This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your Collabtive virtual server. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of Collabtive 2.1.1 and it requires:

Open your favorite web browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com/install.php . Once you do that, you will be taken to the first page of the Collabtive web installer. Choose the installer language, check if all system requirements are met, enter the MySQL database information and click ‘Continue’. On the next page, create an administrator user and set its password. That is it. The Collabtive installation is now complete.

For security reason, it is recommended to delete ‘install.php’ and ‘update.php’ files:

rm /var/www/collabtive/install.php
rm /var/www/collabtive/update.php

Log in to the Administrator back-end area at http://your-domain.com to configure Collabtive according to your needs, extend the functionality of your installation with plugins etc.

Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Ubuntu Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install Collabtive for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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